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Who We Are

UW Leadership
Staff
External Advisory Board
Fellows
Affiliates

UW Leadership

Our Director, Faculty Director, and Steering Committee lead strategic planning and operations.

Rachel Berney

Faculty Director, Urban@UW
Associate Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning

Christian Anderson

Payman Arabshahi

Professor, and Associate Chair for Education at the Department Electrical & Computer Engineering; Principal Research Scientist, UW Applied Physics Laboratory; Director, ECE's Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program (ENGINE); researcher with the Mobility Innovation Center

Rubén Casas

Assistant Professor, Culture, Arts and Communication, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences;  Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Urban Studies. UW-Tacoma. Faculty lead for the Urban Environmental Justice Initiative at Urban@UW.

Seema Clifasefi

Associate professor and co-director of the Harm Reduction Research and Treatment (HaRRT) Center in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington-Harborview Medical Center; Adjunct Faculty, School of Social Work; Director, Doorway Project, Homelessness Research Initiative

Rick Mohler

FAIA, NCARB, Professor and Department Chair, Architecture. Co-founder of the Clean Hands Collective, co-PI, Sound Communities Initiative. Co-chair, Seattle Planning Commission

Anaid Yerena

Associate Professor, Urban Studies, UW-Tacoma

Staff

The Urban@UW staffing team supports our projects and operations.

Jen Davison

Project Director, Community Engagement, Executive Office of the President and Provost; Co-Director, Urban@UW Research to Action Collaboratory

Kate Landis
Program Manager

External Advisory Board

Our External Advisory Board provides thought partnership around mission, strategies, relationship-building and sustainability.

Andria Lazaga

Director of Policy and Strategic Initiatives, Seattle Housing Authority

Seattle Housing Authority
Andrea Newman

Executive Director, Urban Land Institute Northwest

Urban Land Institute Northwest

Rico Quirindongo

Director, Office of Planning and Community Development, City of Seattle

Office of Planning and Community Development

Jim Suehiro

Consulting Architect, Suehiro Architecture

Steve Whitney

Senior Advisor at SCWhitney LLC

Bullitt Foundation
Jess Zimbabwe

Executive Director, Environmental Works
Adjunct Instructor, University of Washington and Georgetown University

Environmental Works

Fellows

Urban@UW Fellows are actively involved in projects in collaboration with or supported by Urban@UW.

Scott Allard

Associate Dean for Research & Engagement, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance

Daniel J. Evans Endowed Professor of Social Policy

Co-founder, Urban@UW 

Gregg Colburn

Giacomo Dalla Chiara

Research Engineer, Urban Freight Lab, Supply Chain and Transportation Logistics Center

Catherine De Almeida

Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture

Kristin Dew

Affiliate Assistant Professor, Human Centered Design and Engineering

Senior UX researcher, Smartsheet

Anne Goodchild

Heidi Gough

Associate Professor of Environmental and Forest Science, College of the Environment, University of Washington 

Bill Howe

Associate Professor, Information School
Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Adjunct Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering

Co-founder, Urban@UW

Co-Founding Director, Center for Responsible AI Systems and Experiences
Director, Urbanalytics Lab
Founding Program Director and Faculty Chair, UW Data Science Masters Degree
Founding Associate Director and Senior Data Science Fellow, UW eScience Institute

 

Julie Johnson

Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture

Adjunct Associate Professor in Architecture

Faculty,  Urban Design Certificate Program, College of Built Environments

 

Susan Kemp

Professor Emerita, School of Social Work
Co-Founder, Urban@UW

Karen Levy

Becca Neumann
Mark A Pagono
Professor in the School of Engineering & Technology,  UWT. 

Resham Patel

Radha Poovendran

Professor, Electical and Computer Engineering

Founding director of the Network Security Lab

Founding member and associate director of research for the UW's Center for Excellence in Information Assurance Research and Education.

Daniela Rosner
Sameer Shah

John C. Garcia Professor and Assistant Professor of Climate Adaptation in the School of Environmental & Forest Sciences. He is also an Affiliate with the UW Center for Studies in Demography in Ecology, Center for Environmental Politics, and Clean Energy Institute

Cleo Wöelfle-Hazard

Assistant Professor, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs

Affiliates

Urban@UW Affiliates share our goals of collaboration to address urban challenges, and consistently engage with Urban@UW.

Arthur Acolin

Associate Professor and Bob Filley Endowed Chair in the Runstad Department of Real Estate, College of Built Environments

Marina Alberti

Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed University Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, Department of Urban Design and Planning; Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Urban Design and Planning and the Urban Ecology Research Laboratory.

Kessie Alexandre

Zack Almquist

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Statistics;  Senior Data Science Fellow, eScience Institute; Training Core PI/Director, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology’s 

Jared Baeten

Affiliate Professor, Global Health; Affiliate Professor, Medicine - Allergy and Infectious Disease; Vice President, HIV Franchise Head, Gilead Sciences

 

Wendy Barrington

Associate Professor, Epidemiology; Associate Professor, Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing;
Associate Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Branden Born

Associate Professor, Urban Design and Planning; Faculty Director, Livable City Year 

 

Ryan Calo

Lane Powell and D. Wayne Gittinger Professor, School of Law; joint appointment, Information School; founding Co-Director, Tech Policy Lab; Co-Founder, Center for an Informed Public.

Kim England

Professor, Department of Geography; Harry Bridges Endowed Chair in Labor Studies Emerita; Adjunct Professor, Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies; Affiliate, Canadian Studies Center (Jackson School of International Studies) and West Coast Poverty Center; Co-Founder, Urban@UW. 

Josephine Ensign

Derek Fulwiler

Chief Strategy Officer, Population Health Initiative

Alexes Harris

Presidential Term Professor, Department of Sociology

Justin Jesty

Emily Keller

Margaret O'Mara

Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Chair of American History; Urban@UW Co-Founder

Joe Lott

Director, Leadership in Higher Education; Faculty Director, Brotherhood Initiative; Associate Professor, College of Education

Jennifer Otten

Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences; Food systems director, UW Nutritional Sciences Program; Undergraduate Program Director, Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health; Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Systems and Population Health; Faculty Researcher, Center for Public Health Nutrition; Co-Director, Livable City Year

Gundula Proksch

Associate Professor, Architecture; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture; Founding Director Circular City + Living Systems Lab 

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Sarah Quinn

Associate Professor, Sociology; affiliate faculty, Urban@UW and the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies.

Jennifer Romich

Jeff Shulman

Christine Stevens

Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership, UW-Tacoma

Sarah Stone

Anne Taufen

Professor, School of Urban Studies at UW Tacoma; Faculty Director, Livable City Year

Rachel Vaughn

Executive Director, Center for Leadership and Social Resposibility, Milgard School of Business, University of Washington Tacoma

Rebecca J. Walter

Associate Professor and holder of the Robert F. Philip Endowed Professorship,  Runstad Department of Real Estate